Intel Xeon E5-520 vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X4 965

Price

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$ 24.60

$ 39.42 significantly less expensive

$ 64.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1676 points

1773 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2485 points

3249 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1418 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

1356 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1363 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1300 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.48 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

16.61 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.26 GHz

3.4 GHz

50% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

780th of 1,089

762nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-520 vs Phenom II X4 965 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-520 is faster than the Phenom II X4 965. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 965 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 965 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X4 965 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-520. Despite this, the Xeon E5-520 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X4 965.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Xeon E5-520 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.